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illuming

verb , present participle of illume

Synonyms and Antonyms of illuming

1 to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understanding

a favorite line of an Eastern Church hymn reads, "through fast-closed doors Thou camest Thy Disciples to illume"

Synonyms of illuming

edifying, educating, enlightening, illuminating, illumining, inspiring, nurturing

Words Related to illuming

elevating, ennobling, enriching, ensouling, lifting, uplifting

bettering, improving, regenerating, renewing, transforming

exalting, glorifying, transfiguring

Near Antonyms of illuming

confusing, perplexing, puzzling

beclouding, clouding, darkening, obscuring

2 to supply with light

during the vigil service the church's Gothic interior was illumed by the light of hundreds of tapers

Synonyms of illuming

bathing, beaconing, emblazing, illuminating, illumining, irradiating, lightening, lighting

Words Related to illuming

beaming, beating (down), radiating, shining

enhaloing, haloing

highlighting, spotlighting

blazing, burning, firing, flaming, glaring, glowing, igniting, incinerating, kindling

bedazzling, blinding, dazing, dazzling

gleaming, glistening, glittering

Near Antonyms of illuming

dimming, dulling, obscuring

covering, shrouding, veiling

dousing (also dowsing), extinguishing, putting out, quenching, snuffing (out)

Antonyms of illuming

blackening, darkening, obfuscating

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